Smiling Mom

I should start this by saying that I was one of those girls. I was the girl who belie­ved with my whole heart that I could change my man.

Go ahead and laugh. I know. Because I now laugh at the youn­ger gene­ra­tion for the same thing.

But I belie­ved that I could, in this par­ti­cu­lar area, change Hubby.

Hubby always has told me he was going to buy an RV when he retires.

SM: OK Hubby. That sounds great.

I hate to drive long dis­tan­ces, hate the idea of spen­ding buc­kets of money on a gas guzz­ling vehicle which will sit in our dri­ve­way depre­cia­ting as we don’t use it. But this was a battle I wouldn’t have to fight for many years.

I could change Hubby’s mind.

And then it inten­si­fied. By it, I mean his desire for an RV. He wan­ted one now.

He had a 5 year plan. What was the plan? To buy one in five years. No plan, just a desire that he called his plan.

But I knew bet­ter. I could change him. I did the math and knew there was no way we could buy an RV in 5 years. Heck, we can barely afford our mort­gage let alone gro­ce­ries each month!

Then the con­ver­sa­tion went from an occa­sio­nal men­tion to an every frea­king time we saw a damn RV type of fixa­tion. Do you know how many Northern Cali­for­nians have RVs?

A LOT.

Then.….. we took a cam­ping trip this wee­kend with our dear friends who hap­pe­ned to be spor­ting the almighty fol­ding tent trailer.

I had been tal­king these up off an on for months now. Aside from them being about $40K chea­per than an RV, they use no gas, insu­rance would be chea­per, and sto­rage would be less of a concern.

Hubby step­ped one foot into the trai­ler and fell in love. He was sold.

We, folks, are buying a tent trai­ler. Hope­fully next spring, but it’s a go.

I feel like I’ve just won the lot­tery. Hubby no lon­ger wants to spend an asi­nine amount of money on an RV which would be under used and over pri­ced, and now is exci­ted, I mean EX-CITED about the fol­ding tent trailer.

Wait a minute. I don’t know if I should look at this as if I’ve just lost upwards of $10K or if I’ve gai­ned $40K.

I think I’ll look at it as gai­ning $40K.

See women, some men can be changed!